''See You Up There'' (french: Au revoir là-haut) is a 2017 French drama film written and directed by and starring
Albert Dupontel
Albert Dupontel (; born 11 January 1964) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Following his father's path, he studied medicine but eventually switched to theater, disillusioned by hospital life. He started his career as a stand-u ...
, adapted from the 2013 novel ''
The Great Swindle'' (''Au revoir là-haut'' in French) by
Pierre Lemaitre
Pierre Lemaitre (born 19 April 1951) is a Prix Goncourt-winning French author and a screenwriter, internationally renowned for the crime novels featuring the fictional character Commandant Camille Verhœven.
His first novel to be translated int ...
.
Plot
In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, Edouard Péricourt saves Albert Maillard's life. The two men have nothing in common but the war. Lieutenant Pradelle, by ordering a senseless assault, destroys their lives while binding them as companions in misfortune. On the ruins of the carnage of WWI, condemned to live, the two attempt to survive. Thus, as Pradelle is about to make a fortune with the war victims' corpses, Albert and Edouard mount a monumental scam with the bereaved families' commemoration and with a nation's hero worship.
Cast
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Albert Dupontel
Albert Dupontel (; born 11 January 1964) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Following his father's path, he studied medicine but eventually switched to theater, disillusioned by hospital life. He started his career as a stand-u ...
as Albert Maillard
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Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (, ; born 6 March 1986) is an Argentine actor. A polyglot, he is best known for his role in the French film '' BPM (Beats per Minute)'' (2017), which earned him a César and a Lumières Award.
Early life
Pérez Biscaya ...
as Édouard Péricourt
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Laurent Lafitte
Laurent Lafitte (born 22 August 1973) is a French actor. He is known for playing the role of Patrick in ''Elle
''Elle'' (stylized ''ELLE'') is a worldwide women's magazine of French origin that offers a mix of fashion and beauty content, tog ...
as Captain Henri d'Aulnay-Pradelle
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Niels Arestrup
Niels Arestrup (; born 8 February 1949) is a French-Danish actor, film director and screenwriter. He has won three César Awards.
Biography
Arestrup was born in Paris into a family of modest means; his father was Danish and his mother was Br ...
as President Marcel Péricourt
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Émilie Dequenne as Madeleine Péricourt
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Mélanie Thierry
Mélanie Thierry is a French actress.
Early life and career
Mélanie Thierry began her career as a model in France, then moved into acting. She began with a series of roles in French productions, and at the age of 17 appeared in the internationa ...
as Pauline
* Héloïse Balster as Louise
* Philippe Uchan as Labourdin
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André Marcon as The police officer
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Michel Vuillermoz
Michel Vuillermoz (born 18 December 1962) is a French actor and scriptwriter.
Vuillermoz has appeared in more than 100 films and 40 plays.
In 1998, he received two Molière Award: Best Male Newcomer and Best Play for ''André le Magnifique''. ...
as Joseph Merlin
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Kyan Khojandi as Dupré
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Carole Franck
Carole Franck (born 1970 in Paris) is a French actress.
Filmography
Dubbing
Theatre
References
External links
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Living people
French film actresses
French television actresses
Actresses from Par ...
as Sister Hortense
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Philippe Duquesne
Philippe Duquesne (born 30 June 1965) is a French actor. He is best known for playing in the cult TV series '' Les Deschiens'' (1993–2002), in which he plays alongside Yolande Moreau
Yolande Moreau (born 27 February 1953) is a Belgian come ...
as The station officer
* Éloïse Genet as Cécile
* Axelle Simon as Madame Belmont
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Denis Podalydès
Denis Podalydès (born 22 April 1963) is a French actor and scriptwriter of Greek descent. Podalydès has appeared in more than 140 films and television shows since 1989. He starred in '' The Officers' Ward'', which was entered into the 2001 Can ...
as The minister
* Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus as The mayor
* Jacques Mateu as The prefect
* Lia Catreux as Madame Péricourt (Édouard's mother)
Production
Movie production started in March 2016 in the region of the Vexin plateau over the Seine river valley.
Reception
On
review aggregator
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Rotten Tomatoes
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, the film holds an approval rating of 93%, based on 15 reviews with an average rating of 7.5/10.
Jordan Mintzer from
The Hollywood Reporter
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wrote that "the film features a handful of jaw-dropping moments — such as an excruciating battle across no man's land — held together by a strong cast, including
BPM (Beats Per Minute)
''BPM (Beats per Minute)'', also known as ''120 BPM (Beats per Minute)'', (french: 120 battements par minute) is a 2017 French drama film directed by Robin Campillo and starring Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois and Adèle Haenel. The fil ...
star Nahuel Perez Biscayart as a disfigured artist hidden behind an array of exquisitely ornamental masks. But condensing nearly 600 pages of story into a two-hour movie proves increasingly difficult as too many plot points take away from all the visual splendor, while the characters hardly have time to be drawn out."
Peter Debruge writing for the
Variety magazine
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based ...
said: "...simultaneously grand and eccentric, and though it sometimes struggles to sustain its identity amid such a strange mix of tones, the film holds together via DP Vincent Mathias’ dramatic widescreen lensing and a splendid, understated score from
Christophe Julien."
Jordi Costa from the Spanish newspaper
El País stated: "Albert Dupontel knows that a black comedy doesn't only have to be cynical and his film finds its soul in the masks that communicate the emotions of one of his characters."
Accolades
See You Up There earned 13 nominations at the
43rd César Awards
The 43rd César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, took place on 2 March 2018, at the Salle Pleyel in Paris to honour the best French films of 2017.
Winners and nominees
See also
* 23rd Lumières Aw ...
, winning 5 awards. The film also won other awards.
References
External links
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{{Albert Dupontel
2017 films
2010s French-language films
French drama films
Films directed by Albert Dupontel
French World War I films
Films whose director won the Best Director César Award
2017 drama films
Films based on French novels
Films set in 1918
2010s French films